Network design for hosting company

[jlaay-diode]

Hi all,

My next job will be for a hosting company. Mostly seperate domains with Dcs, Citrix farms, DB servers etc for each customer, some VMware (rising) and a few websites. Customers 80 and about 800 servers.

They are migrating to a full Cisco network for which they hired a company to do the design of the network.

Is there a kind of generic design schema or design considerations for this kind of environment?

Thanx,

Jaap Laaij

Netherlands

[#2]

Following documents will give you the details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.1/user/UsrDb.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/unity/42/upgrade/guide/ex/ru_070.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6505/ps8463/prod_white_paper0900aecd806c3a2f.html

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns432/c649/ccmigration_09186a008090872b.pdf

[scheikhnajib]

A great document for this job ...

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns107/c649/ccmigration_09186a008073377d.pdf

S.

[Collin Clark]

If they're good they will model off of the Solution Reference Design Guides. They can be found here-

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns656/networking_solutions_design_guidances_list.html

Hope that helps

[cisco24x7]

I used to work a hosting Service Provider so I

do have some experience with the design

- create a Admin network for the Network

Operations, Engineering, Backup/restore where

the provider will be using to access multiple

customers' network

- put in a firewall for each customer. Now

for hosting provider, most of them use

Checkpoint Firewall instead of Cisco because

Checkpoint has Provider-1 where it can manage

hundred if not thousands of customer's firewalls,

- put in global rule for network Operations,

backup,restore to access customer's equipments

-For each customer's firewall, you will

interfaces connecting to Internet, Admin

and any interfaces for Citrix, Web, DB, etc...

This is a classic design that has been used

for years by Managed hosting companies.

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